Art Appreciation Exam 1 Revel questions

A typical example of a low-relief sculpture is

A coin

A very thin, transparent film of color painted over an already-painted surface is called

A glaze

Robert Longo's Corporate Wars: Wall of Influence is an example of

A high-relief sculpture

Which of the following is used to describe an elevated awareness of the beauty in the viewer?

Aesthetics

Making discriminating judgments about art is inherent to

All art criticism

Due to its monumental size, Viola Frey's Stubborn Woman, Orange Hands is supported using

An armature

Joan Mitchell's Untitled is an example of

An oil painting

A print in which an artist is physically involved with production is known as

An original print

A subcategory of constructed sculpture- seen in the works of Deborah Butterfield- that involves the use of familiar objects in new ways is

Assemblage

Encaustic is an ancient painting medium in which the pigments are suspended in

Beeswax

A contemporary artist who uses relief techniques in an original way is

Betsabee Romero

The Chinese regard painting derived from the art of

Calligraphy

A full-size drawing made as a guide for a work in another medium is a

Cartoon

What is also called a substitution process?

Casting

The process of printing came to Europe from

China

In painting media, the pigment most notably provides

Color

Critics who examine the environmental influences on a work of art, such as economic system, cultural values, and politics, use

Contextual theories

Projective drawing involves

Creating something that only exists in the artist's mind

In Preacher, Charles White gives the figure a feeling of mass, using the technique of

Cross-hatching

Which artist creates sophisticated drawings on an ipad?

David Hockney

Which artist is considered a leader in the revival of fresco painting in the 1920s and 1930s?

Diego Rivera

Asymmetrical balance is a feature of

Edgar Degas's Jockeys Before the Race

In Her Secret Is Patience, Janet Echelmen used

Fiber, steel, and lights

Sculpture that is meant to be seen from all sides is called in-the-round or

Freestanding

Which artist is known for making a modified Citroen DS car?

Gabriel Orozco

Which artist wanted viewers to see the natural rhythms present in a flower?

Georgia O'Keeffe

All of the following are examples of dry media except

Gouache

Opaque watercolor is also called

Gouache

For which artwork did the artist photograph the process of creation?

Henri Matisse's Large Reclining Nude

Michelangelo created Study of a Reclining Male Nude

In preparation for a larger work

All of the following are true of pastel except

It differs greatly from chalk

Why would Utagawa Hiroshige have needed to be careful in his registration in creating Shono hakuu (light rain at shono)?

It required multiple blocks of color

Mary Cassatt's The Letter most notably demonstrates the influence of

Japanese woodblock prints

Which work makes use of light as a medium?

Keith Sonnier's Motordom

Alexander Calder was one of the first artists to explore the possibilities of

Kinetic sculpture

Elizabeth Catlett's Sharecropper is an example of

Linoleum cut

In which of the following media does the artist draw an image with a greasy crayon directly on a flat stone slab?

Lithography

Figure ground reversal can be best seen in

M.C. Escher's Sky and Water 1

Henri di Toulouse-Lautrec's Jane Avril Jardin de Paris is a poster created using

Offset lithography

Which work is an example of an assemblage?

Pablo Picasso's Bull's Head

At various stages in the printmaking process, artists check on the developing image by making

Proofs

Figurative art is a type of

Representational art

Jazz provided a notable influence on the work of

Romare Bearden

Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project is an example of

Site-specific art

Chaz Maviyane-Davie's Global Warming is an example of art as a vehicle for

Social causes

Keltie Ferris demonstrates a contemporary approach by finishing her works with

Spray paint

A type of paint utilizing egg yolk as a binder is

Tempera

Nicola Lopez's Blighted expresses the artist's memories of

The attacks of September 11, 2001

Julio Gonzalez was the first sculptor to use

The welding torch

In Buon Fresco, the pigments, combined with water, are applied to

Wet plaster

Romare Bearden's Rocket to the Moon is an example of

a photo montage

The 1973 court case Miller v. California established

artists' freedom to create what they want

Vincent van Gogh's Carpenter demonstrates

careful attention to detail

Which of the following media used today is most similar to drawing media used by prehistoric people?

charcoal

Two-dimensional artists create the illusion of volume with light by using

chiaroscuro

In his image Monkey Puzzle, Keith Haring creates a bold and dynamic effect by using

complementary colors

The juxtaposition of strongly dissimilar elements is referred to as

contrast

According to the authors of the book Innovator's DNA, all of the following are traits that define creativity EXCEPT

criticizing

Which of the following is the result of the process of arranging, selecting, and ordering?

design

Yong Soon Min's Dwelling is an assemblage that attempts to express the artist's

feelings of a divided self

The first century sculpture Augustus of Prima Porta and the fourteenth century painting Effects of Good Government in the City both exemplify the function of art

for persuasion

In an artwork, the total effect of the combined visual qualities is known as the

form

Which theories focus attention on the composition of an artwork and how earlier artworks may have influenced it?

formal theories

Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis is an example of a

graphic novel

The symbolic meaning of visual signs and imagery in a work of art is known as

iconography

The purity or saturation of a color is its

intensity

Sabatino "Simon" Rodia could be classified as an outsider artist because of his

lack of awareness of art history.

In art, the term "value" refers to the

lightness and darkness of surfaces

Raphael's The School of Athens provides the viewer with the illusion of the three-dimensional world on a two-dimensional surface by the use of

linear perspective

Alexander Calder's mobiles are examples of "kinetic art," because they

move in space

Background shapes are referred to as

negative shapes

When a work of art shows no reference to the natural world of images, it is called

nonrepresentational

Size relationships between parts of a whole are known as

proportion

Any kind of movement or structure of dominant and subordinate elements in sequence in a work of art refers to

rhythm

Ogata Korin's Cranes exemplifies the principle of

rhythm and repetition

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's sculptures, such as Shuttlecocks, affect us immediately through their

scale

Architects are generally most concerned with qualities of

space

Value judgment about art necessarily involves

subjectivity

When the two sides of composition correspond to one another in size, shape, and placement of form, the work has

symmetrical balance

The Taj Mahal was intended to function as a

tomb

The term used to describe the "fool-the-eye" realism of William Harnett's painting A Smoke Backstage is

trompe l'oeil

The appearance of oneness in a work of art is

unity

Francisco Goya's print I Saw This was intended as a commentary on

war

Chris Olfili's Holy Virgin Mary and Michelangelo's Last Judgment

were both subject to censorship

A mixed-media artwork is made

with different materials